NEWS LAST HOUR

With Hillary Clinton two million votes ahead of Donald Trump - which could reach three million by the time all votes count - the controversy over the US electoral system has skyrocketed.
A part of the Democratic grassroots calls for the abolition of the current system, dating from the eighteenth century, when it was designed to give more power to rural and slave states, and was even labeled Donald Trump as a "disaster" in 2012. But the most decisive move has been made by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who has announced she plans to appeal to the courts and demand a recount in three states, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, where provisional data Put Trump ahead of Clinton with 10,000, 22,000, and 70,000 votes respectively. Stein did not support Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump during the campaign. And he even tried to benefit from the 'civil war' between Clinton and supporters of left-wing Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders to the point of standing, uninvited, at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia in July. In fact, it is very likely that the diversion of votes towards his formation has cost Clinton the presidency. But now it is his initiative that has once again brought to the fore the paradox that Clinton has won the election. And overwhelmingly. In other words, the polls were not wrong. The Democrat candidate for the presidency has already pulled out 1.5 percentage points more than the Republican. And the difference continues to grow as votes are counted. There remain at least four million ballots to be scrutinized. Many of them, in Democratic states, like California and Washington. So the only thing that is in question is, paradoxically, the margin of victory of the defeat of Clinton.